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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 33

The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time
by Anne Freadman
Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her "livres-souvenirs," are far from being autobiographies in the customary sense. By addressing the need to reconsider the generic issues surrounding autobiographical story- telling, Anne Freadman's study brings the richness of "the genre question" to the fore, shedding a fresh light on this ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 32

Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature
by Eva Sansavior
The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author's work has attracted much critical attention in the United States, it is her fictional works that have been the focus of this attention, with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance. In these intelligent and sensitive readings, Eva ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 31

Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge, and Desire in the Roman de la Rose
by Sylvia Huot
The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that the experience of love is impossible to put into words. An examination of the intertextual density of the Rose, with its citations and adaptations of a range of Latin authors, shows that the discourse of bodily desire, pleasure, and trauma emerges indirectly from the juxtaposition and conflation of sources. Huot's new book focuses on ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 30

Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation
by Mairi McLaughlin
It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. For the first time this assumption is put to the test using extensive fieldwork carried out in an international news agency and a corpus of translated news agency dispatches. The linguistic analysis of three syntactic structures in the translations is complemented by an investigation of the effects of a range of factors ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 29

Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
by Anna Kemp
In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France's relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves.

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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 28

The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830-1930
by Julie Townsend
Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, under the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess. They represented her alternately as an elusive ideal, a saucy prostitute, or a dangerous seductress. Dancers, in turn, produced their own images, novels ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 27

Personal Effects: Reading the Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff
by Sonia Wilson
Five months before her death of tuberculosis in 1884, Marie Bashkirtseff, an aspiring artist and a would-be mondaine, composed a preface to her personal diary. In it, she brazenly declared that in the event of her early death her diary was to be published. Three years later, a truncated version of the diary appeared. Translated into English, championed by Barrès and Gladstone, taken up by young diarists from France to the US, the diary ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 26

Syllables of Time: Proust and the History of Reading
by Teresa Whitington
This study reveals reading to be one of the main activities to occupy the inhabitants of the world of Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Characters do not just read books but have access to the journals and newspapers of a rapidly expanding print industry. They receive letters and postcards from family and friends. The posters of a nascent advertising industry tempt them to spend an evening at the theatre or a holiday by ...
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Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
by Jennifer Yee
In the course of the nineteenth century, France built up a colonial empire second only to Britains. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial 'Other' is frequently understood in terms of Edward Said's description of Orientalism as both a Western projection and a 'will to govern' over the Orient. There is, however, a body of works that eludes such a simple categorisation, offering glimpses of colonial resistance, of a critique of ...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 23

Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630: Forms and Functions
by Katherine MacDonald
When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pupil was Ramus's future biographer, the much less famous Nicolas de Nancel (1539-1610), who recounted this anecdote in his Vita Rami (1599). Nancel's insertion of himself into his life of Ramus is typical of early modern biographies of men of letters. ...
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